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" Although many humanities scholars have been talking and writing about the transition to the digital age for more than a decade, only in the last few years have we seen a convergence of the factors that make this transition possible: the spread of sufficient infrastructure on campuses, the creation of truly massive databases of humanities content, and a generation of students that has never known a world without easy Internet access. Teaching History in the Digital Age serves as a guide for practitioners on how to fruitfully employ the transformative changes of digital media in the research, writing, and teaching of history. T. Mills Kelly synthesizes more than two decades of research in digital history, offering practical advice on how to make best use of the results of this synthesis in the classroom and new ways of thinking about pedagogy in the digital humanities"--
History --- Study and teaching (Higher) --- Technological innovations. --- Computer-assisted instruction. --- Annals --- Auxiliary sciences of history --- HISTORY / Historiography. --- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies. --- EDUCATION / Teaching Methods & Materials / Arts & Humanities. --- EDUCATION / Higher. --- College students --- Higher education --- Postsecondary education --- Universities and colleges --- Education
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This book produces a major rethinking of the history of development after 1940 through an exploration of Britain’s ambitions for industrialisation in its Caribbean colonies. Industrial development is a neglected topic in histories of the British Colonial Empire, and we know very little of plans for Britain’s Caribbean colonies in general in the late colonial period, despite the role played by riots in the region in prompting an increase in development spending. This account shows the importance of knowledge and expertise in the promotion of a model of Caribbean development that is best described as liberal rather than state-centred and authoritarian. It explores how the post-war period saw an attempt by the Colonial Office to revive Caribbean economies by transforming cane sugar from a low-value foodstuff into a lucrative starting compound for making fuels, plastics and medical products. In addition, it shows that as Caribbean territories moved towards independence and America sought to shape the future of the region, scientific and economic advice became a key strategy for the maintenance of British control of the West Indian colonies. Britain needed to counter attempts by American-backed experts to promote a very different approach to industrial development after 1945 informed by the priorities of US foreign policy.
Technological innovations --- Breakthroughs, Technological --- Innovations, Industrial --- Innovations, Technological --- Technical innovations --- Technological breakthroughs --- Technological change --- Creative ability in technology --- Inventions --- Domestication of technology --- Innovation relay centers --- Research, Industrial --- Technology transfer --- History --- Great Britain --- Colonies --- Economic policy. --- science --- experts --- development --- empire --- Caribbean --- late colonial --- sugar --- industrialisation --- British West Indies --- Trinidad --- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland --- Humanities. --- History. --- History: specific events and topics. --- Colonialism and imperialism. --- HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / 20th Century.
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